archive 26·01·2012

cinema

• Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan talks about country’s dual character

  Touching down in Serbia; the internationally acclaimed Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan was one… 26/01/12 17:31 CET

corporate

• Nokia profit slumps on Windows switch

  A bad quarter for Nokia as its earning fell 73 percent and it made a loss after tax of just over… 26/01/12 16:43 CET

• NEC under pressure cuts jobs

  Japanese electronics firm NEC is to layoff nearly 10 percent of its workers. The 10,000 jobs… 26/01/12 14:57 CET

• EasyJet sales jump bucks industry trend

  EasyJet, Europe’s second largest budget airline, says its quarterly revenue jumped thanks to things… 26/01/12 14:20 CET

Davos 2012

• Big freeze fails to deter protesters at Davos

  Adapt and protest. That is one of the messages emerging from Davos. The snow is not enough to deter… 26/01/12 18:48 CET

• Eurozone should stay intact says Lamy

  Some blame part of the Eurozone’s woes on globalization – the interconnectedness of world economies… 26/01/12 18:48 CET

• Eurozone crisis dominates debates at Davos

  The shrieks and cries, the swish and swirl of winter sports are the normal sounds which echo across… 26/01/12 18:48 CET

• Davos blog: Let it snow!

  If you are a skier this is the weekend to hit the slopes in Davos. Not only has it not stopped… 26/01/12 15:42 CET

• New problems new solutions

  The World Economic Summit has opened in Davos to a background of economic and geopolitical changes… 26/01/12 15:41 CET

• Austerity and solidarity to save the euro

  Omnipresent in the background of the World Economic Forum in Davos is the sovereign debt crisis in… 26/01/12 15:41 CET

economy

• Spain pushes for jobs help cash from EU

  Looking for ideas on how to help Spain’s struggling economy new Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy met… 26/01/12 19:57 CET

• Greece in last chance debt talks

  In a race against the clock, talks resumed on Thursday between Greece and its debtors. They are… 26/01/12 17:44 CET

• German consumers more upbeat

  A new survey shows German consumer morale to be at its highest in 10 months. The report, by the… 26/01/12 14:51 CET

europa

• EU enlargement: In search of the next Croatia

  Croatia’s ‘Yes’ vote to join the European Union puts it on course to be the club’s 28th member in… 26/01/12 20:50 CET

futuris

• Living independently thanks to a computer

  2012 is the European Year for Active Ageing and researchers are using the latest technologies to… 26/01/12 12:55 CET

le mag

• Weegee: Murder Is My Business

  Disturbing and graphic images of killings and gangster arrests in depression-era New York by… 26/01/12 17:51 CET

metropolitans

• Malmö shows off its green regeneration

  Malmö, Scandinavia’s bridge to Europe, is Sweden’s third largest city with 300,000 inhabitants… 26/01/12 17:08 CET

musica

• Bonus interview: Fabio Luisi and Rudolf Buchbinder

  Here are some extra excerpts from our interview with pianist Rudolf Buchbinder and conductor Fabio… 26/01/12 14:30 CET

• Florence’s new opera house ‘a metaphysical space of absolute purity’

  Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is considered one of the most harrowing pieces in the classical… 26/01/12 13:27 CET

pictureoftheday

• Rainbow over the Greek parliament

  A rainbow appears over the Greek parliament in Athens’s Syntagma Square. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis 26/01/12 12:29 CET

science

• Japanese scientists discover flu clue

  This is the world’s first 3D look at the inside of the flu virus. The pictures were produced by a… 26/01/12 19:26 CET

space

• A rocket star is born

  The family of European rockets is growing. The next one is the youngest, called Vega and will be… 26/01/12 12:23 CET

Sport

• Olympic environmental commissioner quits as Dow stays

  As London prepares for the six-month countdown to the Olympic games the 1984 Bhopal chemical… 26/01/12 19:12 CET

• Waifs and strays in Ukraine

  This week animal rights activists have been protesting outside a government building in Ukraine… 26/01/12 08:39 CET

thenetwork

• How is Europe coping with the financial crisis?

  In this week’s edition of The Network, Chris Burns looks at rising anger across Europe as… 26/01/12 20:58 CET

world news

• Tobin tax on financial transactions – optimists vs others

  Not all save the world acts are created equal; take the Robin Hood Tax campaign: it has staggering… 26/01/12 18:55 CET

• Azerbaijan arrests suspect plotters with Iranian link

  Azerbaijan has arrested two men suspected of plotting to attack prominent foreigners in the former… 26/01/12 23:53 CET

• Portuguese workers killed in dam landslide

  Three workers have been killed in a landslide during the construction of a dam in Portugal… 26/01/12 23:03 CET

• Lego makes a giant leap into space

  A legoman has gone where no legoman has gone before. Two Canadian high school students from… 26/01/12 23:03 CET

• Aid charity accuses Libya of torturing prisoners

  Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has ended its work in the Libyan city of Misrata amid… 26/01/12 22:33 CET

• Syrian revolt edges closer to Damascus

  Despite the troop presence in some areas around Damascus, Syria’s anti-government uprising looks to… 26/01/12 22:04 CET

• Brazil grants visa to Cuban dissident

  Brazil has granted a tourist visa to a leading Cuban dissident, just days before President Dilma… 26/01/12 19:28 CET

• 1m fake US dollars seized in Portugal

  Portuguese police have smashed a counterfeiting ring and seized around one million fake US dollars… 26/01/12 19:28 CET

• First appearance of animal virus in UK

  Scientists have discovered the first ever outbreak in the UK of a disease that causes birth defects… 26/01/12 19:28 CET

• OSCE monitors ready for Russia’s presidential race

  European election observers have begun monitoring Russia’s presidential campaign. The Organisation… 26/01/12 19:13 CET

• Kyrgyz inmates sew lips together in prison protest

  More than 1,300 prisoners are said to have sewn their lips together with nearly 7,000 on hunger… 26/01/12 18:33 CET

• Cameron dubs Franco-German tax plan ‘madness’

  Britain’s David Cameron has taken a swipe at Franco-German plans for a financial transaction tax in… 26/01/12 17:44 CET

• Concordia victims in compensation talks

  With all hopes of finding any more survivors of the Costa Concordia disaster all but gone… 26/01/12 17:34 CET

• Police detain PIP breast implant boss

  French police are continuing to question the head of a firm that supplied non-medical grade… 26/01/12 17:33 CET

• No easing of Belarus repression

  In the cold, outside the human rights defence body the Council of Europe, this handful of exiles… 26/01/12 16:24 CET

• Rio city centre shrouded in dust after collapse

  At least three people are now confirmed dead following the collapse of two high-rise buildings in… 26/01/12 16:03 CET

• Armenian couple name their baby “Sarkozy”

  A couple in Armenia have named their new-born baby Sarkozy in honour of France’s president. It… 26/01/12 15:04 CET

• Spying scandal erupts in Germany

  A political scandal is brewing in Germany over revelations that a state security agency has been… 26/01/12 14:35 CET

• Gillard jostled on Australia Day

  There was a nasty surprise for Australia’s prime minister and leader of the opposition who chose to… 26/01/12 12:34 CET

• Ceausescu memorabilia goes under the hammer

  Symbols of corruption and opulence in the final years of communism in Romania have been put up for… 26/01/12 12:34 CET

• Kirchner slams Cameron comments as ‘nonsense’

  Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner has wasted no time bouncing back from surgery on a… 26/01/12 11:34 CET

• Breast implant maker facing manslaughter charges

  The founder of the French breast implant company at the centre of an international health scare is… 26/01/12 11:03 CET

• At least two dead in Rio building collapse

  Two buildings in the historic centre of Rio de Janeiro have collapsed, injuring several people… 26/01/12 10:13 CET

• Back in the Day: discovery of the world’s biggest diamond

  *January 26, 1905* South African mine manager Frederick Wells discovers a 3,106 carat (106.1 gram)… 26/01/12 09:40 CET

• Colonel denies coup in Papua New Guinea

  A group of soldiers led by a retired colonel says it has arrested the head of Papua New Guinea’s… 26/01/12 09:03 CET

• UN raises concerns over Libya’s militias

  Libyan militias remain heavily armed, uncontrolled and continue to detain Muammar Gaddafi… 26/01/12 07:49 CET

• Search for victims after buildings collapse in Rio

  Three buildings – one 20 stories high – have collapsed, burying at least 11 people, in the… 26/01/12 07:44 CET

• Hope runs out of finding Italian wreck survivors

  Search efforts aboard the capsized Costa Concordia are now realistically aimed at recovering bodies… 26/01/12 07:39 CET

• Obama takes message of tax reform to swing-states

  Barack Obama has set off on his own mini election trail, carrying Tuesday’s State of the Union… 26/01/12 07:32 CET

• Spain: Close Rajoy ally cleared in corruption case

  A close political ally of Spain’s prime minister has been cleared of accepting designer suits in… 26/01/12 07:27 CET

• Gabrielle Giffords bids a final farewell to Congress

  A year after suffering a bullet wound to her brain, US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has… 26/01/12 07:16 CET

• Red Crescent chief is shot dead in Syria

  The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent has been shot dead on the road to Damascus. The… 26/01/12 07:00 CET

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